Inside a Union's Fight Against Trump's Federal Job Cuts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Engagement in locals was varied.
56% : Many, if not most, supported President Trump in the 2024 election, said Mr. Trammel, a registered Republican.
55% : "At its most basic, a union is just a group of workers deciding to join together and pool their individual talents and resources to try to improve their workplace," said Andrew Huddleston, a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees.
54% : Mr. Trammel is the president of Local 3957 of the American Federation of Government Employees, the country's largest union of federal workers.
44% : "They have no experience with it," he added, referring to the people working at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
27% : "It is insulting to say that we are low-productivity public workers, that we are corrupt, that we are the Deep State, that we are lazy," said Brian Kelly, vice president of a local in Michigan that represents employees of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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